The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-11
Echoes from the Press.


A Mean Magwump Fling.
In his order of July IA, 1886, to
the heads Of departments concerning
the interference of federal Office hold
ers in elections the president said;
They have no right as Office holders to
dictate the political action of their associ-
ates or to throttle freedom of action with
In party lines by methods and practices
which pervert every useful and justitiable
purpose of party organizations. The in
fluence of federal office holders should not
be felt In the manipulation of political
primary meetings and nominating conven-
tons.
The practices condemned in this
order are precisely those of which
Higgins, Rasin and Thomas have
been guilty. A neglect to punish
them is equivalent to the withdrawal
of the order from which we have quo
ted. But the friends of civil service
reform in Baltimore ought to see to
it that the issue is fairly made, in or
der that the president may have no
room for doubt as to his duty nor the
people as to his purpose.-New York
Times.
The Faith Cure.
A camp meeting is now being held
at Old Orchard, Me. and special an
nointing services are held for the cure
of the sick. The Boston Journal of
last Saturday reports the following
remarkable cures:
Miss Florence Martin of Syracuse, N.
Y, who had not been able to raise herself
upon her feet since she was little child
because of spinal trouble whose nature
had baffied all the physicians, rose to her
feet and stood alone after she had been
annointed, and when the exercises We're
closed and the people were leaving the
tabernacle she walked out of the building
and to her boarding place, assisted herself
by taking hold of the hands of a gentle
man and lady on each side of her that she
might not fall, for, as she said when she
left her chair, she had 'sGot to learn to
walk" not having done so before for
about ID years.
Another case of remarkable cure was
that of Miss Ina Moses of Old Orchard
who, about three years ago, was so severe
ly injured in her left hip and knee while
coasting in the winter that she had evel
since been obliged to go upon crutches
To-day at the camp ground she threw hel
clutches away, and at the amounting ser
vice, she walked to the altar, and, for the
first time since her injury, found herself
able to kneel down. She also walked
from the building at the close of the ser
vices.
The Mugwumps' real basis is love
of the good, the true, and the beauti
full, and hatred of lying, deceit an(
hypocrisy. And they love and hat,
these things without distinction O.
party.-Boston Herald.
"The Pharisee stood and prayed
thus with himself God, l thank the,
that l am not as other men are, ex
tortioners, unjust, adulterers, or ever
as this publican. cleveland Leader
i The Industrial Journal of Bango
says that "Senator Dawes is the frs
prominent member of the Republican
party to offer plan of tariff revision
along protectionist lines that fairl,
meets the exigency due to a surplu
revenue of $1OO,OOO,O0O
The drop of terra infrma in Ken
lucky the other day seems to hav
carried with it great part of the bi!
democratic majority of the state O
blue grass and bourbons.-Rutlan'
Herald.
The hotels and saloons in St. AL
bans reaped rich harvest circus day
Bars were thrown wide open, and nj
attempt was made to conceal the lille
gal traffic in liquor. St. Albass i
the only village in the state wher
such open violation of law is possible
-Richford Gazette.